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Aug 2, 2022 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Ok I'll admit it: I'm still stupid motivated by proving ex-girlfriends, friends from high school wrong.
Rage is the best fuel for success. #trillionaire #mindset
Old high school friends: "why is sam parr looking at my linkedin profile?"

no shame.

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Feb 1
How The Hustle got its first 100k users:

My team and I wrote lots of blog posts that went viral.

I'd study where my potential users were (tech nerds) and what type of content would get their attention.

Here are some of the early ones.

We had no users at first. Each of these got at least 100k visits in first 7 days.

Google Has a Secret Interview Process… And It Landed Me a Job
- Story of a buddy that got a job interview from google because he was googling code questions and got a popup asking him to join google.


How Pandora's Founder Convinced 50 Early Employees to Work 2 Years Without Pay
- Pandora founder gave a 40 min talk at my event. Last 3 minutes he explained how he was broke and convinced people to work for free.


Part 1: Confessions from the Underground World of Kindle eBooks
- Had a bud making $60k a month copying authors who wrote books on picking up girls + selling consulting because of his success. I thought it was sleezy and was mad at Kindle so we plagiarized a romance novel and made it a best seller.


10 Amazing Entrepreneurs Who Had Accomplished Nothing By Age 30
- Simple. Obviously this would go viral because anyone over 30 would feel great reading this.


Soylent: What Happened When I Went 30 Days Without Food
- I thought the subreddit r/soylent would be full of hustle readers, so did this post to get popular there.


Getting Called “Sweetie” Helped this Entrepreneur Create a Multi-Million-Dollar Business
- founder of hint did a talk. This is one story from her talk. Plus, Hint wanted to promote it and drove traffic.


There were a bunch more. But these were the articles I personally wrote or was involved in in the early, early days when we had no or very small audience.

After a while, we had this guy working for us named Zach Crockett. He wrote 1 article per week. Prolly 50% went viral w/ +1m visitors.

This strategy would still work today...thehustle.co/the-secret-goo…
thehustle.co/how-pandoras-f…
thehustle.co/underground-wo…
thehustle.co/10-amazing-ent…
thehustle.co/soylent-what-h…
thehustle.co/hint-is-multi-…
Here are the numbers when we first started Image
Here are the numbers like a year later.

We didn't start out as a daily business news newsletter.

Were a weekly newsletter with cool content. Then became what the hustle is now around spring 2016.

You can see when we switched. Image
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Mar 28, 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm back.

Last July I founded a new startup. Today I'm sharing it with the world.

It's called Hampton: a highly vetted membership community for entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs.

Why launch a community? I'll explain + why it'll be huge biz.
Link to Hampton: joinhampton.com

I started The Hustle when I was 25.

I didn’t know a thing. Thankfully it worked and we had a successful exit.

One reason why was because I met monthly with other founders like @ShaanVP and @jspeiser.

These meetings changed my life.
For example, @jspeiser and I knew everything about one another.

- Business challenges
- Personal finances
- Relationship issues

We talked hiring, laying people off, dealing with depression. Everything.

We pushed each other, helped one another, and learned together.
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Mar 28, 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm back.

Last July I founded a new startup. Today I'm sharing it with the world.

It's called Hampton: a highly vetted membership community for entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs.

Why launch a community? I'll explain + why it'll be huge biz.
Link to Hampton: joinhampton.com

I started The Hustle when I was 25.

I didn’t know a thing. Thankfully it worked and we had a successful exit.

One reason why was because I met monthly with other founders like @ShaanVP and @jspeiser.

These meetings changed my life.
For example, @jspeiser and I knew everything about one another.

- Business challenges
- Personal finances
- Relationship issues

We talked hiring, laying people off, dealing with depression. Everything.

We pushed each other, helped one another, and learned together.
Read 14 tweets
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Jan 6, 2023
A bunch of cool charts on the Us stock market from the 1870s to 2022.

U.S. Stock Market Returns by Decade.

The average return of the U.S. stock market has been 8.4% per year over the past 151 years (1871 to 2022) Image
Buy, Hold… Profit?

Once we zoom it out to look at 20-year periods, you won’t see any more flashes of red. In other words, The U.S. stock market has never declined over any 20-year period. Image
The Best Months in Stock Market History.

A familiar story: in the short-term, the stock market is far from predictable.

The best month in stock market history was August 1932, when the market gained 50.3% in a single month! Image
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Dec 22, 2022
I sold The Hustle's first ads. About $100k worth.

Here's the 1st cold email I sent that got a sale. It was Wealthfront.

Maybe sent emails to 20 diff brands, 5-8 showed interest.

We had 93,535 subscribers. I charged them $26 per 1,000 sends.
This took forever because 1) we didn't know anything 2) not many others doing it so we made it up 3) advertisers didn't typically buy newsletter ads. 4) i was doing it and had zero experience

Nowadays its much easier. Doing it again, i'd get advertisers MUCH earlier.
I can't find the email but here's the old welcome email...
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Sep 22, 2022
On the pod we did a recap on Sara's List.

Goal: show startups that:

- are stable-ish startups
- pay a very competitive salary
- w/ great benefits
- but can still make you a millionaire because the equity can 5-10x

Here's a 1 year update on our picks.
1. Flexport:

Value at pod: $3.2b. 2019 when Softbank invested $1B at Series D)

Now: $8B. $935M Series E in Feb. 2022.

Growth: 2.5x
2. Zapier:

Value at pod: $5.1B. ARR of $140M.

Now: Hasn't raised another round.

Growth: No change.

Some valued Zapier higher at ~$7B based on a 5-year revenue forecast that has Zapier growing 30-50% over the next 5 years.
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